Patterson Cemetery District
Obits listing for 1915
Submitted by Gale Stroud 23 Aug 2007
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Holden Steve 150403 p1
Westley Suicide May Be Steve Holden; An unidentified body found on the Southern Pacific
right-of-way at Westley, Stanislaus County, may be that of Steve Holden, a blacksmith,
according to the belief of local people who knew the man, says the Stockton Independent. The
description of the body and of Holden tally very closely. The body was found Saturday evening
by a brakeman, lying under the Southern Pacific water tank at Westley, with the throat slashed
from ear to ear. Inside the body was a razor with which the deed is believed to have been done
and Stanislaus authorities are of the opinion that the case is one of suicide. When inquiry was
made at the home of A. V. Hauselt last evening by an independent reporter, it was stated that
Hauselt had worked with a man named Steve Holden at the blacksmith shop of R. A. Rains and
that he was about the age of the man found dead at Westley. R. A. Rains, when asked about
Holden, said that a description of the man tallied very closely with that of the man who had been
in his employ.